“The attempt is made to arrange chronologically, and when possible to tabulate all the facts and dates of American political history from the time of the first visit of the Norsemen (985) to the present.” (Ind.) “Prepared under the stimulus of the merciless questioning of the author’s boys, this work gives complete tables of information of all species. Genealogies, nicknames, autographs, lists of the writings of all the Presidents; accounts of their educational advantages, and descriptions of their inaugurations and burial places; a political history of the Confederate States; the province of each department of the general Government, are some of the contents of the volume.” (N. Y. Times.)
“It is one of the most useful reference books for teacher and student alike, and the amount of out-of-the-way information which it collects and classifies is simply amazing.”
+ + Dial. 39: 314. N. 16, ’05. 60w.
“The arrangement is excellent, and the quantity of detail assembled and classified is remarkable. Sufficient care has not been taken on the score of accuracy.”
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“It is by no means always correct.”
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Tracy, Louis. Karl Grier: the strange story of a man with a sixth sense. †$1.50. Clode, E. J.
“Karl Grier has not only all the advantages physical and mental that a young man can desire, but he possesses the power of projecting his consciousness into any part of the world according to his wish.... Mr. Tracy’s hero ‘presented an unrecorded phase of hypertrophy of the brain,’ the unnatural growth being ‘permitted by the occasional bursting of a distended membrane.’ Of course every novel reader knows that such happenings would have extraordinary results. Twice his marvellous knowledge almost costs Karl his life; it drives one villain to suicide and the other to stand on his head in a large and fashionable restaurant. That same villain, too, subsequently makes a murderous attack upon Karl, which by fracturing his skull and causing a lesion of the middle and lower lobes of the brain renders his future life perfectly normal by knocking ‘the sixth sense’ out of him.”—Sat. R.